Hana Bank acquired 6.55% of Dunamu from Kakao for 1 trillion won. The deal includes a won-stablecoin partnership and closes three weeks before Dunamu's merger vote with Naver.
The attacker funded the node through Monero and Hyperliquid weeks before the theft. Chainalysis mapped the entire trail. THORChain paused all trading.
Hormuz Safe settles maritime cargo insurance in Bitcoin, bypassing SWIFT entirely. Iran's Ministry of Economic Affairs says the platform could generate $10 billion. The website is already up. Whether anyone outside Iran will use it is another question.
SoftBank contributed roughly 10,500 BTC when Twenty One Capital launched. Six months later, Tether bought the entire position, removed SoftBank's board seats, and took uncontested control of a company sitting on 43,514 BTC worth $3.4 billion.
A compromised private key let an attacker automate withdrawals from Polymarket's UMA CTF Adapter on Polygon. ZachXBT flagged it first. Losses passed $700,000 before the team responded. Polymarket says user funds are safe. The attacker has already split the proceeds across 15 wallets.
The New York Times published an investigation on Sunday that lands like a grenade in the middle of the prediction market debate. The core finding: careerâŠ
A Polymarket contract asking whether Prabowo Subianto would leave power before 2029 went live on May 21. By May 22, Indonesia's Ministry of Communication had blocked the site nationwide. The government froze 33,000 bank accounts linked to online betting earlier this year. This is the second Asian country to ban Polymarket in a single week.
Spain's Consumer Rights Ministry ordered ISPs to block both platforms after finding they operate without gambling licenses. The ban follows a Polymarket contract on PM Sanchez leaving office and a Kalshi market pricing his exit at 29%. The block list now includes India, Indonesia, Brazil, Ukraine, France, Belgium, Australia, Portugal, Argentina, the Netherlands, and Spain.
BTC clawed back above $67,000 on March 30, posting a 1.1% daily gain. But zoom out: this is the sixth consecutive red monthly close, matching the worst streak in Bitcoin's entire history. The last time this happened, a 300% rally followed. The market is watching whether history repeats or rewrites itself.
SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton has pushed back against Roman Storm's attempt to use a 2026 Supreme Court copyright ruling as a defense against the two charges a jury deadlocked on last year. The case is a live contradiction: the same DOJ that issued a memo ending 'regulation by prosecution' on crypto platforms is now pursuing a retrial that could send a developer to prison for 40 years for writing open-source code.
The deal gives Payward all three CFTC licenses needed to run a full-stack U.S. crypto derivatives platform. It follows Deutsche Börse's $200 million stake in Kraken earlier this week.
The global financial markets, and specifically the crypto sector, are currently caught in a web of conflicting geopolitical signals.
The Senate passed it unanimously on April 3. Ringleaders whose operations kill victims face life in prison. The government has set an April 2026 deadline to shut down every illegal scam compound inside its borders.
Operating without Bank of Russia registration could bring up to seven years in prison. The Supreme Court says the bill is premature until a broader digital currency law takes effect in July.
Binance cut 12 spot pairs. Bybit removed 7 tokens entirely. Coinbase pulled DAI, TIME, and a dozen futures pairs. The cleanup happened while Consensus Miami was running.
818,334 BTC. A $12.5 billion Q1 loss. An 11.5% dividend on preferred stock that needs to be paid somehow. Polymarket odds on a Bitcoin sale by year-end jumped from 10% to 82% in one week.
